AN~ This and the next chapter will be Henry and Veronica's views on waking up and what happened to their daughters.
Henry had woken up to his mother, brother and ex-girlfriend standing over him, staring expectantly. He'd been told nothing except that he had to kiss Veronica. He'd done it willingly, and they'd gone of to rescue his daughters. In the car, they still hadn't explained anything other than that he'd been asleep for a long time because of something called 'The Scarlet Hand'.
When he'd found his daughters and been told exactly what had happened, he was hit by a torrent of different emotions.
First, he was sad, sorrowful that he'd lost two years of his daughter's lives, that they were such different people, that he hadn't been there for them.
He was happy, too, happy that they were still alive after all that they'd been through. There wasn't much happiness, though.
One of his main reactions was bewilderment. He'd been asleep for two years and his mother had taken care of the girls? It seemed like he'd only been asleep for a second, yet here he was, back in the place he'd grown up, the first home he remembered.
The overriding emotion was fear. He was terrified for his life, Veronica's life, the girl's lives, Sabrina's childhood, Daphne's innocence, Jake's future, and, seeing that boy with the dirty green sweatshirt and how he'd looked at Sabrina, Sabrina's future, too.
Of course, he had to be strong and not let the fear show, so he'd expressed it through anger. There was anger there anyway. Anger that his mom had taken the girls to Ferryport Landing anyway, even though he'd clearly told her that he didn't want them to have any part in the Everafter business. Anger at Goldilocks for coming back and causing the problems with Veronica he knew were coming. Anger at the scarlet group or whatever they were called for stealing away two years of his life. Anger at that Smirt woman for hurting his children. Anger at himself for letting it happen. Anger at the boy in the green hoodie for daring to look at Sabrina like that. He was angry at the girls, too. At Daphne for not obeying his every wish with a smile the way she'd done last time he'd seen her, at Sabrina for turning into a hardened, angry person a lot like himself at the moment.
He needed to get them out, away from this emotional mess, before something worse happened.